In teaching school, students should start TAing, eventually teaching freshmen in their final years.
When they graduate, they should be placed with 12th graders, and graduate to 11th grade for the next year, and so on.
Kids are easier to teach when they’re older, since they’ve been in school so long already. The younger a kid is, the less they already know, both in subject matter and scholastic habits.
Teaching the youngest kids is tricky and a serious responsibility, which should be entrusted to those who have subtracted bits of that knowledge one by one, and faced the associated challenges.
I’m guessing you haven’t met many teachers outside of school… And not just because you called college “teaching school”
Yeah, these mistakes and general conveyed mindset means OP is clearly very young. Narrow viewpoint and weak hot take.
I know several, related to some. I’ve often heard “teaching school” used as a colloquial term for education graduate programs, not unlike “medical school”.
Not all teachers want to teach at all grade levels. My sister specifically is an early childhood educator. She wanted to be a kindergarten teacher, but ended up working for a private daycare. There is no way she would teach high school. One she does not know those subject to teach, two as said she is an early childhood teacher.
My high school English teacher was moved to the middle school and ended up retiring because she was a high school teacher, not a middle school teacher, it was not her wheel house teaching children of that age.
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Caveat: I know nothing of K-12 education except experience as a student.
This caught my eye:
The younger students can be molded.
I think you’re arguing OP’s point, whether you know it or not. A bad 1st grade teacher can go horrible, laying damage - far more than a 12th grade teacher. And you argue that this should be entrusted to the least trained?
Keep in mind, this is in the context of OP’s argument that the most experienced teachers (arguably, under OP’s training regime) are the ones teaching the most vulnerable students.
I don’t know whether OP thinks current Ed training is the reverse of what they’re suggesting, or whether they know they’re suggesting a new, radically different, and honestly expensive-sounding educator training model. And I admit starting teaching “interns” at 12th grade sounds like throwing innocents into shark-infested waters to teach them to swim.
But I think your attitude is… alarming? Hey, little kids are impressionable and moldable, so give them to the newbies 'cause they’re easier! Dunno, person, if that’s the healthy view.
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